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Today I learned about Basic English. Basic English is an actual constructed language that is made up of 850 of the most simple and commonly used English words. It came out in a 1930 book by Charles Kay Ogden, and is used to teach people English quickly or to translate complex books for users in many different countries. There is actually a whole separate Wikipedia written in Simple English, which is a more complex variation of Basic English. It just occurs to me that I should have tried to write this post using nothing but Basic English, but really it's too late for that now.